Paul Stenquist wrote: >I don't spend enough time here to be as well informed as you.. Too many other >things to occupy my time. But I find it hard to >resist responding to our resident Nikon shooter, who chimes in every time the >importance of 24 x 36 is taken less than seriously.
Hi Paul, I hope you view my chiming in as nothing more than the light-hearted jousts they were intended as. For me to say or imply that one cannot obtain excellent images with Pentax APS-C bodies would be akin to slitting my own throat, as I've been shooting exclusively Pentax for the past 22 years, until last year. I'm currently using three cameras. A D800E, a Sony NEX-7 (APS-C) and a Sony RX-100 compact with 1" sensor. I alternate between the three based on circumstances or what I feel like carrying at the time. I was kind of just pointing out that no one 'needs' something until it all of the sudden becomes available. You responded honestly that you would likely purchase a 24 x 36 Pentax body. You excel at, among other things, automotive photography and have had success. That says more about your skill as a photographer, post-processor, and knowledge of your client, than it does about the tools you used to capture the image, n'est ce pas? Without meaning to beat a dead horse for the umpty-umpth time, the reason Pentax needs to have a FF DSLR (and hopefully lenses to match) is because otherwise they'll continue to lose relevance compared to Nikon and Canon. I don't know the exact timing without researching it, but C, and more recently N, have had quasi-affordable (meaning potentially affordable by me) FF digital bodies out now for something close to 5 years, The vast majority of the DSLR market may not know or care about the difference in sensor sizes other than what's stated on the outside of the box. There's a huge segment of the market that will buy their first DSLR/kit lens and never buy another, It seems to be human nature to want or to purchase the best we can afford at a given point in time. For Pentax not to have a FF system, cedes all of that market to Canon and Nikon. That is where they stand at this very moment. Those that can afford to purchase products that are up-market (for lack of a better term), are not putting their money in the Ricoh/Pentax till. That, in the simplest of terms, is not benefiting Pentax. The lack of a 24 x 36 body will turn anyone away from Pentax that wants a visible upgrade path. I'm not dismissing APS-C. I'm saying Pentax needs a 24 x 36 body if they hope to maintain any relevancy in the marketplace, which after all is the raison d'etre (money making). Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
